Shinrei Tantei Yakumo - Volume 10 Chapter 8

Chapter 8

Translated by Niulili

“I’m home”

Gotou opened the front door of the storehouse

Someone was making meal. He could smell the fragrance.

He took off his shoes at the entrance and went through the corridor into the living room. He stood in a warm and divided kitchen and he could see the back of his wife Atsuko.

During the police days, Atsuko was preparing their meals like this. He had never been back in time.

“Oh. You are back.”

Atsuko said while turning back and forth whether she had noticed the signs of Gotou.

“Yeah, just now”

“I see. So, how was it?”

Atsuko asked.

This too was unthinkable in the police age.

When Gotou was working in the police, Atsuko never asked for work. She understood that he had a job as a police officer and that he had a confidentiality obligation, and he thought that she did not dare to ask him, but he felt that it was not only that.

“How, it’s bad. That old man pushed me into troubles.”

“That means it’s real this time”

Atsuko asked, as she find out everything from Gotou’s words.

He said that he was psychic detective, but most of the requests that came in were misrepresentation or misconception.

But in this case, Gotou himself had experienced psychic phenomena.

“Well, that’s about it.”

“If so, it might be better to ask him. You can’t handle it.”

It sounded like she was making Gotou an idiot, but it was a fact.

Unfortunately, Gotou was losing the hand when it came to real psychic phenomena. That was why he must ask Yakumo for cooperation. But …

“I asked him already”

“So ?”

“He refused”

“It’s always like that about you”

Atsuko laughed from behind.

If a person who knew the personality of Yakumo, he would embrace the same thoughts. Yakumo had never heard what he asked, for anything.

“No, I don’t feel like it is the same as usual this time”

Gotou shook his head.

“What happened ?”

“This guy… His left eye didn’t recover his vision yet”

When Gotou spoke, Atsuko looked down like under thought.

“Because the eyeballs were fine, of course, his eyesight should be restored.”

“Yeah, that’s right… But it’s a spiritual things”

Gotou sighed involuntarily.

At that time, although he thought he was going to be in a bad fight against Yakumo, now he became calm, he could understand that it wasn’t a such simple things.

It would even seem that if he could not see it, it would be for Yakumo’s sake.

“Say, when will you bring him home next time?”

“Do you want to persuade him ?”

“You’re wrong. It’s just to get together and eat some meal.”

“Meal, huh…”

“Yes. You also have to take this opportunity, and try to face each other about this incident ?”

He was shocked by Atsuko’s words.

She had a mild appearance, but contrary to her appearance, she had a much more solid core than Gotou and other people saw.

As Atsuko said, Gotou had hardly ever encountered Yakumo in the past outside of the cases.

It was not such a bad time to talk with Yakumo just because of this incident. But would Yakumo agreed ?

If it was Yakumo, he would say “If I go with Gotou-san, the food will tastes bad.”

“Nao will also be pleased.”

At Atsuko’s words, Gotou said “That’s right”.

If he had Nao, Yakumo wouldn’t say he doesn’t want it.

“By the way, where is Nao ?” Gotou asked.

At this time, Nao was usually in the living room. She liked to draw and often run out of pencils insanely, but he could not see her.

“About that … she was a little feverish.”

Atsuko’s face suddenly became uneasy.

“Feverish ?”

“Yes. Because she was ill, I took her to the hospital this after noon. It seems that her throat is slightly red with a slight fever.”

“It’s a cold…”

“I think. It is the change of the season.”

“I’ll see her a little”

Gotou left the living room and headed for Nao’s room.

When he opened the door, Nao slept on the bed.

Nao’s mother died when she was alone. It was the uncle of Yakumo that took her over, and it was Isshin that was the priest of this temple.

But Isshin also died. He was caught in a case and killed.

Gotou made the decision to take over Nao.

Gotou’s couple had no children, he took Nao by sympathy and because he could not stand this situation. But that was not the only reason.

Before the death of Isshin, Gotou and others kept Nao temporarily. At that time, he intended to protect Nao, but in reality it was not.

With the presence of Nao, Gotou was able to face Atsuko for the first time in a long time.

His rough heart was soften by the presence of Nao, and he could walk forward.

He knew it was an ego, but Gotou felt that he needed Nao.

Of course, at first he was anxious. Nao had lost her parents twice. Her heart’s wounds were ridiculously deep.

Nao’s hearing is impaired.

Above all, it was the fear that they became parents.

However, these worries blew away immediately after they began to live together.

His affection for Nao had grown day by day, and she quickly became irreplaceable.

The thought that he had something to protect brought various changes in Gotou.

He was deeply impressed by the fact that this must be that to be parent.

Whatever, for Gotou, Nao was genuinely the daughter of this family.

“Nao-”

Gotou bent to the side of Nao’s bed, speaking aloud.

She was breathing painfully, probably because of the fever.

“It’s okay, you’ll get better soon.”

Gotou touched Nao’s cheek.

This touch seemed to smooth his raging mind.

He would like to see her sleeping face forever, but she was sleeping with a cold. It would be a pity to wake her up.

When Gotou went to the door to get out of the room, his spine shivered.

It felt as if something has run around through his body, a disgusting sensation.

– Just now, what was that ?

Looking back, Nao had opened her eyes.

“Sorry, I wake you up. Rest slowly.”

Gotou stroked Nao’s head when he returned to her.

He thought that she would go back to sleep as it was, but Nao never closed her eyes.

She glared with beast’s eyes as she looked at Gotou.

– What ?

“Guuu”

Nao raised up her body while making a roaring voice.

“What’s wrong ?”

Gotou put his hand on Nao’s shoulder.

“Giii”, Nao squeezed it out, uttering a strange voice.

Her mouth was shaking and she was breathing repeatedly.

Clearly, it was a different reaction from being feverish. Exactly, what was going on?

“Gooo”

Nao roared again.

Like a dog that intimidated an enemy, she had her teeth raised.

From the edge of her mouth, drool dripped.

“Oï, Nao…”

Gotou shook Nao by her shoulders.

Eyes wide open, Nao bit Gotou’s arm.

“It hurts !”

Gotou tried to pull off his arm of this intense pain, and he was not able to do it.

Nao bit as she crawled on Gotou’s arm. It seemed that Gotou’s arm was about to bite off.

Although he could forcibly shook it off, he couldn’t afford Nao to get hurt.

“Nao ! Calm down ! Nao !”

Gotou repeated it, enduring the pain while his arm was bitten.

“What’ wrong ?”

Hearing the noise, Atsuko jumped into the room.

Seeing the disaster in front of her, she lost her voice and stiffened.

Nao’s eyes were turned to Atsuko from Gotou.

She had eyes with a strong aggression like a bloodthirsty beast.

– It’s bad !

As he thought so, it was too late.

Nao got out of Gotou, lowered her center of gravity and rushed to Atsuko.

Atsuko could not escape, but received Nao from the front. As it was, she fell to the floor, all messed up.

“Oï ! Are you alright !”

Gotou rushed and ran over the two of them.

Nao did not fell heavily. But her breathing was normal. She seemed to had lose consciousness. Atsuko turned to Gotou in such a way that she did not know what it was.

Even with such eyes, Gotou too could not understand what it had happened. However, it does not mean that he was not aware.

He had seen a phenomenon similar to this before.

People who are possessed by ghosts could be like this.

Gotou, thinking ahead, was remembering the horror.